The Mashgiach of Today's Mashgichim: Rav Matisyahu Salomon zt"l by Sylvie Schatz

okay we said last week that we would do for a few weeks a little bit uh about a great man that passed away ra Salomon you remember and we said that we would taste a little bit of his of his to get an idea the most normal person that I met very deep and really fitting the times knowing he was from another generation he passed away not long ago but in Lakewood but he he really knew what the generation today needs and he put himself on the level you remember when said to M you have to go down from the mountain because your people have have sinned and from a mountain we usually don't go up we go down so why left Le red and says rash we have to if somebody speaks so high that nobody knows what he's talking about it doesn't help exactly so therefore so therefore it's very important to check that you speak what people need to hear but of course by giving them user and he really knew to do it and I had prepared one lesson and after the terrible terrible terrible news of today I had had a lot to choose in which order I'm going to give you those speeches and I changed my mind and H it's very moving and you are going to understand why H we sometimes are allowed to make changes when the situation is so a lot a lot of Miracles and a lot of midad as well very very sad I I almost I was out of town today teaching it was very hard for me to teach but what's the point of not teaching is worse you have to together get means we're going to DAV more and to try to be even better so that finally has total on us because such a thing very very very very sad okay now the the one of today is a little bit interesting it's a little bit different ra ma Salomon is speaking about um a question and he's asking why does your shal have such an importance and it's funny because he was in gates at all his years and then he was in America so but he speaks still about yush and that's what we say in k l of theim that's why I brought books so that we see it inside and where does it say here okay everybody knows I don't know why this doesn't seem to have like used to say and then we say we hanged our our kinot our violins our Harps or whatever okay um the sing for us the songs of Z how can we sing when we are means on a on a Strange Land and then the famous oath that is when they were in galut B said so nice everybody has tears when one hears it at a wedding in other word let my tongue get glued to my pallet if I don't think of you and if I don't remind myself of you if I don't place at the top of all my joys okay and then we speak about um the the sons of adom who are trying to destroy us and the daughter of bavel which is a and and we know that Hashem at some point will make them pay all of it but but at the same time how sad it is so this is the basis for the oath that we shouldn't forget yush now the midash Raba says that after theu made a m and he said that he's going to call the place where he made item and because I want it to be serious I'm going to read you theim as well I looked for all theim it's after the war against the Kings you know peral the four and the five Kings and um I read you one second AB ainu gets lot back you know that he gets lot back and uh where is it shal and He blesses Abraham now malit sedc you know who is malit sedc he's a kohen but he's really the son of Noah okay and and He blesses etc etc and who is he he is me sh so there is a place where we had the AA which is called Shalom okay and then we have in perfet at the end of the AA that's perfet we have that's a basis for understanding the um I'll read you the PUK as wellam now he's already Abraham a okay and this is how it says and then Rashi will explain the whole thing that the two names together Shalem which is perfection and Hashem presence of Hashem there makes yush and that's where we have the name yush coming from okay so that's why this is a place of perfection and of shalom shalom Plus because is perfect okay so this is the basis for first we had the basis with theim of the O that we shouldn't forget yush and where does it come the name with shal and okay now we have another which I want to show you as well I am happy when they tell me let's go to the house of our feet are in front of your Gates here is a word which is important y built like a unified City and here is a lot the [Music] Y and it's there that all the tribes used to go um as a as a Cav to Hashem and that's where we have Justice that's where we have the House of David and please please ask or sh Shalom please request peace for yush and those that love you should be in peace with each other all the time shom shalom shalom and uh the house of Hashem is important and this is yush okay so we have already a few proofs a few sources for yushan that's the place where the tribes met and everybody comes to yush to praise AEM but when when we are unified and the same thing with today you like the story that you had with the briis we could have a story with a cotel people go to the cotel who have never been in Israel who have never been at the cotel something draws them to the cotel and suddenly they feel part of PL is of there is an interesting in the not not the commentary on the Torah but in in the in the part which is if somebody D outside of Isel okay he should D towards Isel and if you're in Isel toward and if he is already in yush towards the mdash toward thees and not only to turn toward that but which is so interesting to think of when we D it's a and says Mish but if you don't know let's say you don't have a compass and you don't know where you are and you can't you you can't be sure that you're turning the right way think of Y think of the BET mdash and think of the [Music] and here we have many many inim if you want I'll read them to you but if not if you want to go further very very interesting where schlom expresses the concept of and the BET mikash and it's one of the places inim that's where is building it's one of the only places where hm says that he's accepting our prayer okay so it's very very interesting why why is this what's so special what's so if a person think of himself makes a why isn't it enough so the prophet s wrote a book which is so moving because it could have been written yesterday it's frightening I have to read you part of it because it's a see uh in in what I told you about about MIM Alf Shem says I have heard your prayers and and I have sanctify this Temple that you have built to place my name there forever and I will be there for all for you for all the times and this is one of the only places where a who says I accept your prayer Etc so I just have to read you a few things and we'll be in tears he wrote a little wrote so many books but he wrote a little pamphlet called m is or the people that were canonising for the people that were soldiers in Russia the people that didn't know what they're fighting for sometimes they fought against another Jew it was horrible and it's a handbook for Jewish soldiers in the tar Army and the Propet gave those nebuch people advice how to live as a Jew under those terrible conditions that if you didn't TR you died etc etc and there is a special prayer that the Propet composed for the Jewish Soldier before he goes out to the battlefield and I read it to you in English it's unbelievable facing such immense danger unsure if you will to see another day he must prepare for two things at the same time for his possible death and at the same time he was he must pray with all his might to survive to be able to serve Hashem so says theet okay uh of course I'm skipping a lot of moving things of of um confessions and of uh all the wrongdoings that one did in life life in case one doesn't survive one should arrive in sh Kem etc etc and trust and faith in Hashem but this prayer says the does not NE necessarily have to be said in Hebrew and usually you know one speaks a lot many others that it's more important to speak in Hebrew because we have the cavus of the which they put in the pill so even if we don't fully understand but if we speak in Hebrew it has already Power by itself says the this prayer was made by me and therefore not not necessarily have to be said in Hebrew you can say it in any language that the soldier understands well but there are two conditions very very interesting one it has to be done with full sincerity from the depth of the heart and not service of the lips and usually a soldier cries while he says this and it's good because the gates of tears are never closed says theet so this condition you understand you have to have a lot of cavon you don't you know there is a there is a big discussion there are two types of cavon we spoke about it a lot one Cav is that you're speaking in front of Hashem another cavon that you understand the world so if you don't fully understand the words okay but it's in lashes but if you don't know that you're praying to it's not called a prayer then it's not called a prayer whatsoever it's very very strange it doesn't mean it doesn't make sense whatsoever okay but the presents his second condition which is very astonishing the soldier should make sure that he direct his prayer through Isel through yush through the BET mikdash through through The KES kashim and then he sure that he gets to Heaven you know if once we could make a sh which is unbelievable that all prayers go either through the holy of holies in or through Theon the there are different all prayers have to go through one of those things so he's not talking now that the overs he's talking about the soldier when he prays this before he goes he doesn't know he's going to survive he should D to survive and it should be ready if not and make a VI and all these things but he should try to turn if he has a compass or something towards Isel and and if not he should at least think of that he wants his prayer to go toward jush until The KES so I understand that facing is very important it's it's just it's not just to become nicer okay but um yeah he uses a word he says that um he says that when you DAV um when you D toward and toward the kashim you're cleaning the prayer even if it wasn't perfect the prayer is clean when it arrives in sham it's cleaner it's some things that I thought we really need now yeah we are in yush we don't even appreciate enough that we're inam is it nice to go to the C not nice too many people dangerous not dangerous I'm not saying I'm not preaching where to go where not to go but I just say that we have an unbelievable for 2,000 years people were ding to get close to and we are inam is what is according to all what we're learning okay now okay in other word when you what he's saying is that when you pray and the prayer passes through the temple you have more chances what is the chat so he says that the purpose of this is RA now not the the purpose of the building of the temple create a point of connection between the two worlds between the and the gash between the the the M the sh the the m which went to heaven the M which are down you know that the M which were meant to be down were very jealous and that's why we have on suus because they got another MIT and is you know sh sh sham why is it called sham you never reach totally so it's sham it's not po it's sham sham is I don't tell you exactly where it is but sh okay as well um opposites and by Hashem can do everything that both don't destroy each other but help each other okay but that the purpose of the building of the temple to create a point of connection between the gashi world and the ri world you know what it reminds me of uh when we when we read shirim I like very much the art scroll does not it's the only book where the art SCH does not translate chat that's when you speak about the breast he doesn't say breast because people would think it's crazy he speaks about the Kim straight so the translation is already according to the brush and one speaks about the neck and ra rutner speaks a lot about it as well the neck is the connection between the body and the head in other words the neck is exactly uh symbol of the temple because it connects this world with the next world that's what the bet mdash is made for where is that's why Y and Bam were crying on each other's neck exactly and not only this many and there are lot of things but it's interesting because you know it's good that the head is people say I'm losing my head but bashem is attached by the neck so you can lose your bag but you don't use your head because it's attached it's what attaches both world because without this world without gashes you can't do the mitz you can't be only in this world we have to be those but we have to elevate the G to the through the through the BET mikdash okay and it has to pass through the kesim and it it cleans it cleanse the prayer and it gets to Sham okay when you are when you're people so the they say easier it's easier to Remember by heart they say to from sh you should be you should be consoled the says amongst all those that are that are OV on the fact that today we don't have the proper and for sure we don't have the BET and you say it for every Aus are we really so OV that we don't have it no so that we know what we have to to work for we have to we have to know what we're what we're crying for what we are uh uh striving for last week we had the sh on on tuat so so we're striving towards the top okay now immediately I was Disturbed the whole time because ra matio Salomon lived all the years when you speak like that so you should live in is right but I knew that he's a g s and he had what to do there and he was sent by to do to put yish in America and and so the the so he says it's not the place it's what the place represents okay and what is the place what is the BET mdash what is ises is the concept of a possibility of a cash withes and a human being needs it practically as well not just in the air not just a theocracy like you know the the other religions they speak and we don't understand a word if we can go to a place where we know that Hashem is down he looks he he wants a little by us right that's what he that's what he asked that we make him a place here okay okay so it's not the place is what it represents with and if we if we go into it deeper then we realize what we lost and only when we realize what we lost that we don't have it it helps us uh want it it helps us pray for it okay we we we pray stronger so that it should come back now we have the okay um the PUK says um I I want to bring it if you don't mind I want to bring it because we all know part of the P but not the whole P it's very interesting to yeah okay and it's a everybody knows [Applause] it peric base and this is a part which we don't know by heart usually okay so we all know I remember what you did for me when you were young when we were when you followed me in the desert in in a country which was not developed not uh it didn't have anything growing on it okay so it's very very interesting so ra says very very interesting he says thatt why do we mention and since when has ears go has ears is a person and and we're speaking is in the desert the whole thing the beginning of the P sounds very very strange that you followed me in the desert and you have to tell it to and if already we have to tell it why not everybody not not just so says Y is a name given toel when they are shalm and Yu when they're United together which is perfection and they that's Perfection and uh and when they have this is the name of yush and that's when they are called yush very interesting he says that there is uh yush Shel and Shel Mala I'm sure all of you the Heavenly City in English five volumes with all the stories of of unbelievable people that are almost like malim with stories and that's why they felt that they want to even translate it into English but originally for many many years all those stories were only uh in Hebrew and sha there is and there Isa and in it's called a place em is given to to to to am is when they are unified and then they have strengths they don't know what they're writing they don't know what they're saying in is in other words togetherness of the of Isel that's called in cab in other word what is Hashem saying to Y he says go call out in the ears of yine in other words when do you go to am Israel when they're United when they which want which means when they want Perfection and then they are they deserve to be called yine when they are united and they want to grow to become Shalem to be perfect and then what does the the what is telling them yeah how can I help you get to that uh Perfection ran yeah and he says I will remind you how you became a nation I'll remind you your first steps in the name of Hashem I remember you your youth the love of when you were engaged when you went after me in the desert into a land that wasn't that didn't have any plants this is how you had Amun that's how you followed me and if you follow me then the which is perfect says it's all based on cab line will be the pl it will be the name that I'll give all of you so it's very very interesting the G the Torah tells us that uh when things were becoming difficult in the midbar some people said um let's give us a rush and let's go back to words we we let's take another leader not moshu who would refuse and go back to is and the STI in his which is on hash is saying that it's very very astonishing you know life is too hard in America I thought that uh that gold grows on trees but it doesn't and it's too difficult even in the modern Tel Aviv and it's too difficult in Paris London Mex whatever so you know what let's go back to Ash it's better anybody in the world would answer such a thing I'm going strong now in MIT the children were killed the the the people were were slaughtered for the for the leprosy of power I mean what's going on what's going on how can they say let's go back to we remember the fish made in China you know the fish which they didn't even cook well for us they they gave us mates which take a long time to go to the system so that we don't have to give them a lot they made us work 12 and 14 hours yes even 80% of the people didn't even want to go out of MIT unbelievable it's very very hard for people to make changes there you know how many people who don't who have fantastic strengths and power and everything and uh where where um milking the cows for years and years in the in the where we milking the cows in the kibuts and when propos them to go out and to become scientist and to this and they prefer they go to eat the the meal is ready they know that every month they don't have to think how to finish the month many many people were too tired mentally to change it's interesting but ra matio says something very different in the Nam of the styp he says you see he brings a lot of beautiful things together he doesn't so much say new because sometimes the is less good than than the original so he says in the name of the of the that that how is it that they did not remember the misery the suffering and everything yeah and the answer says the styler is that the land of Egypt was F fertile was very very beautiful blessed with all kinds of things like The Garden of even in in peracute giml in bis in the fight between the Shepherds of lot and Abraham Abraham says to lot we can't continue staying together and either you go to the right I'll go to the left you choose first or you go to the left I go to the right and lot chose the plane of which was and he Compares it now this is not a this is the word of the Tor say something fascinating is made not to have beli in hasem why it's beautiful it grows by itself and you don't need the rain the rain is one of the most fantastic things to have belief in Hashem soon as there isn't enough rain we we D because water is so important in MIT they were everything was canals and the canals were H homemade uh hand um manmade were manmade so you don't have to DAV for it was that's and the same thing it was such at the time today not at all I tried to grow plants in stom I don't think it works very well only hotels with with crazy massage and all kinds of things but and it has nice weather but it's not it's not a place where you picture growing things you have sand where you have salt and salt and salt and but before it was like the Garden of Eden and say was the same thing they had seen they were they were tortured by human beings by the cultures of the Egyptians but then when they went out the weather was beautiful the the scenery was beautiful they just didn't have any time meanwhile there were the 10 plagues and meanwhile there was the the yamu and everything and and all these culture and all these people are not there anymore let's say the Swiss people don't let you enter Switzerland like they did during the war they even sent them back so many of them uh knowing that they're going to be sent to to our streets and places like that but imagine that Switzerland is almost empty of Swiss people to go to Switzerland and to rebuild it and to conquer it and to make it a nice place why not it's very very beautiful so the people that when things were very difficult in the desert that you need every day to have the the the amuna of the man because at night you don't have a penny in your pocket and you have to believe that the next morning you get again I don't know if you are like me when I don't have H checken in my pocket I'm very I don't speak about having millions but you know when I when my children go out I say take some money in your pocket one never knows you might get lost you might need a bus you might need a taxi you might need food one never knows so if the people are not there then then I understand that at moments of difficulty and of nness they said let's go back to Egypt that's what the style onel okay it's very very interesting so because the devastation that had happened in M was such after all what hasem showed them because of aak par says you want to know me I'll show you meem and everything is going to be destroyed okay and Egypt was desolate was depopulated was defenseless was vulnerable was it had become a weak Nation it's a everything every everybody was was destroyed and everything okay so after after receiving the Torah am Israel could have turned around and conquered Egypt very very easily and they would have settled down and everything is fertile and have a comfortable Jewish life have a very very nice Jewish life and that's why and by the way this is what happens during all the centuries ra Yakov kamki speaks about R Yakov kinety speaks about the more we don't feel the galut when we are all over in other places the more Hashem has to continue the galut that we should begin missing the not galut because the galut is it's not decided how long it will be if you feel the galut you make it shorter if you don't feel the galut then it has to be longer that's of the that's Yakov kamki that says but and and and when they came to is there is Big discussions why did it have to be in a way of War in 1948 everything had war in Isel people just come back from the camps and they have to fight the edel the ha this so you know I had enough of all this War I want to live in in the golden Medina I want to live here I want it's very hard you you can understand this is all the sty Who Came From Russia and came to Israel and everything okay so the the Jewish people were faced with a dilemma okay in other words should they make a new country on the ruins of Old Egypt or should they go to is like told them which has more possibility of kadha which you which everything is towards building a bet mikdash and everything you need a certain M to to do this it's all the STP in his book which I mentioned okay not only this you have mitv and all these things okay and you know as well once we do that text I did it years ago with a group I think it was you as well but perhaps not the same people the rav has a beautiful beautiful chapter on what is and why the the extra closeness to you can only have in and we don't always have it in the in the positive term sometimes it with punishment and it's with difficulties but one thing is sure that we feel the hand of Hashem more here than anywhere else right the very fact that we live in a in with date somebody called me to invite me at a wedding next week so I say when is it and they told me five times the date in in and they didn't they had no idea if it's still shat or if it's ad or if it's and and these are from people whether you want it or not we live amongst go we live in a different way okay so it's very very interesting so uh uh so so that's that the importance he says I find it very interesting that the importance or turning when you D toward understanding what means that it means a a strive for Perfection and for Unity of is which afterwards is called in the cab it's interesting with the two worlds which I gave you the sources um and and whether you want it or not when people in hear about tragedies that happen in or or in they they do react more than anywhere else in the world they do I mean people that are close to that are close to yish that are not totally assimilated but even assimilation the somebody was told me oh you made so many Bal I said I didn't make anything first of all a person makes himself a b but beside that you just put a nitot n is a spark and there is gas in the air in is what doesn't speak to people in speaks to people in as well yes or no you have all lived it with people that you invited that you saw that you everything okay you had a story now with mosa but it's it's a k of the cor of everything so this is I skipped quite a lot but at the same time this is one of the tees that he gave showing that we are not aware that we should always turn our chilot not only to what we want what we expect what we demand what we beg like in the amid in the forgive us all the first which are personal and all the the next ones which are the whole of Cl is but making it go through yush and that why to it's a to try to turn your thoughts and even your body toward I found it very interesting what do you say you have questions you have uh I wasn't going I was going to do something else which BL I'll do next week but the reason why I did this one is because this triller of the of the especially today 26 guys went today between yesterday night and today 26 guys we never had such uh such number yet we had on the seven of October but on a daily basis we're getting to very big numbers 35 years old 40 years old 30 years old 25 years old not just you know kids 18 as well but people fathers of families and everything it's this of theet show that it's not the first time that it happened that has a resilience which is unbelievable because we have always lived those things more or less or whatever but we and the this like I find it difficult the balance between not getting depressed no feeling with others at the same time so what so if I feel too much I'll cry and I won't and I won't give a shear and you're going just to put yourself in bed and somebody calls and says could you make food for this one or or could you go and give I last week I wasn't well Friday shabas I was not very not well and I was slepping and then they called me to give a Sher in my neighborhood so my first reaction was no then okay if they would ask me to go now to all the hotels and you need a lot of uh K and energy to because people are in demand people want to hear people that are three months already without a home without a school for the kids and everything so they asked me to go and I wasn't feeling well and I said not this week I can't go and and but then somebody asked me for for my neighborhood to give a sh I don't think is allowed to say no so I said yes and I I didn't have rain even or anything but the balance between and on the other hand being able to be positive constantly positive that goes in a direction and everything this is exactly what he spoke in this you have to be ready to make V in case in one day you're not alive and on the other hand to beg AEM yes to be alive to be B to serve him this is always a difficult balance by the Eden and I found it very very moving and and and for now and for now this is one of the speeches that a few years ago before all this ra ma Salomon gave in Lakewood interesting interesting not in but in Lakewood okay so in your next week you if you have question you can ask me I always leave five minutes for questions yeah no I just wanted to say I told some of them already that I um I was watching um ra Ela kugman spoke in aramea um two weeks ago by yoton and it was it was it was very interesting in if if you look up kugman it could be that you'll be able to get it on on uh I always get I get RAB btz I get whoever a lot of people are uh you can get their shim and so this was a very big a yeah yeah yeah since you in so you even have time to listen to it I don't do much else so so anyway no no did he say what please stand by each and every one of us just two exactly just two minutes says what did was talking about theim theim that we say at the beginning of the of the umon and and he was explaining it and and uh and and then at the end we say is it was I can't repeat the but this was the gist of what he was what he was saying but uh and he was talking about I mean you know without having so many every day they were carbonos was talking also about that they are fathers and and that there are children that are youum and they Al moners that are Al moners and and and it was very how much to to delve into this for sure to feel and how much to not I have a granddaughter that is very high in computers and her boss she works mostly from home so she's protected but her boss is not not religious at all and fascinating uh she told him you know she works very very hard lately nine hours a day at least and concentrate yes I know because because a lot of people are taking hes because they need a break so he says so take hes I can't tell you anything if you take hes he said I don't think it's fitting to take hes now he says why so she said because it's War but what does it have to do with you he answered her he said it has to do with all of us she makes such a Kem it has to do with all of us that there is a war There Are People Dying there are family is destroyed it's not a one day thing Etc and he said to her it's so interesting what you say I never thought like that imagine this is a very intelligent person on a high level of computers and who has friends that are falling every day him much more than her because he's fry and and and his friends are in the army or the sons of his friends are in the Army he said I have to think about it you don't want to go on holiday because there are people she says yes I don't think it fits that's not the time and you know she's educating them so that's real Kem for sure for sure but but what was is she constantly does such things but on the other hand how much how much because I'm telling you today was like a m psh I I really felt that I don't know if I can and I change the subject that I wanted to teach today I didn't want to invent my sh I wanted to take from ra like we said but something on with so we were so we were discussing last week already my daughters and I um should one go to buy clothing so on the one hand I mean I I just can't I get messages there's sales here there's sales there I I you know it's not that I don't have something to wear so I don't but on the other hand there are people who need the parosa and if nobody's buying then they don't have Theos either so it's very difficult to make a balance the balance to live normal so that the world can continue even economically and on the other hand to to to I don't think we should um the am married of his daughter uh or a granddaughter I forgot a few weeks ago and they didn't know if to make a or not to make a to make not to make to make a big engagement not and he told them yes to make but for example without music or yes to make but not migas and the seminar of theob should we take the girls for a t one day not far because nobody now goes far because it's dangerous or should I not but kids 14 15 if you don't give them anything as long as you can it's not a solution so they went for shabas speaking whole chabas but shabas they didn't do the that they do usually they went back home you see to to make a difference to make something in between I don't know I'm not telling you I'm telling you that to feel we have a to feel we have a and not just when one knows somebody because it's all okay thank you very much we should hear much